We have been tracking developments in the ongoing dispute between Conversant and Huawei in relation to a global FRAND licence. In this latest ruling, the Court of Appeal has agreed that the English courts, and not those in China, are the right forum for the case, as we discuss in this blog.

In the latest round of Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd & Ors, previously discussed in our blogs, the Court of Appeal has rejected Huawei's appeal against the High Court's decision of April 2017.

Are the English Courts the right forum for claims of patent infringement when the relief sought is the determination of a global FRAND licence? This was the question that Mr Justice Carr recently had to consider in Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL v Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

We previously reported on the judgment in the FRAND trial ("the 711 judgment"), the sixth in the series of judgments in the Unwired Planet v Huawei patent battle. We now look at the High Court's judgment concerning the controversial issue of confidential information and redaction